Legal Research

Staying Current - Blawgs & RSS Feeds

By David

Staying current is an essential requirement of all law students and lawyers. There are a number of blawgs that will help you stay current with legal issues. See the following for lists of specialty blawgs.

?          ABA Journal’s Blawg Directory.

?          Blawg is an extensive directory of legal blogs. It is searchable and can also be browsed by category. Blogs are ranked by popularity. A search feature (”Search the blawgosphere”) enables you to search blog posts. Every blog listing has an RSS feed, which makes subscribing convenient.

?          BlawgSearch is another directory of legal blogs. As the name suggests, it makes searching blog posts easy.

?          Law X.0?s Taxonomy of Legal Blogs is a selective directory. You can choose by topic, by jurisdiction, by type of author, etc.

RSS feeds ? (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication Format) also keep you current by sending you

?          summaries of changing web content

?          News related websites and weblogs

See the RSS symbol on a blawg or news service indicates that an RSS alert is available.  See

The Virtual Chase RSS News Feeds for Law -www.virtualchase.com/resources/rss_law.html  or

The government website - http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml  for a list of RSS feeds to stay current on specific topics.  (Post- David)

Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).